Azure Traffic Manager Insights

What is Azure Traffic Manager?

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness. It uses DNS to direct client requests to the most appropriate endpoint based on various routing methods like priority, performance, geographic, and weighted round robin. It's commonly used for improving application availability, responsiveness, and enabling disaster recovery scenarios.

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What other technologies are related to Azure Traffic Manager?

Azure Traffic Manager Competitor Technologies

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer provides load balancing within a region, while Traffic Manager provides global DNS-based traffic routing. They serve similar, but different scopes, making Azure Load Balancer a potential competitor when regional load balancing is sufficient.

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 10% (111) of relevant job posts

Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door, like Traffic Manager, provides global HTTP(S) load balancing, application acceleration, and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities. It's a direct competitor for web application traffic routing.

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 6% (79) of relevant job posts

Load Balancers

Generic load balancers perform a similar function to Traffic Manager - distributing load across multiple endpoints, but usually at a regional level. This makes them competitors

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 0% (87) of relevant job posts

Azure Traffic Manager Complementary Technologies

Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing within a region. Traffic Manager can direct traffic to different Application Gateways in different regions, making them complementary.

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 5% (77) of relevant job posts

App Gateway

Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing within a region. Traffic Manager can direct traffic to different Application Gateways in different regions, making them complementary.

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 7% (56) of relevant job posts

Azure DNS

Azure DNS provides DNS services, and Traffic Manager leverages DNS to route traffic. Thus it is complementary.

mentioned alongside Azure Traffic Manager in 5% (63) of relevant job posts